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Panting, Ingvalt grimaced in pain and ducked into an alley. "Must have... Hit me... Harder than I thought she did." There was a flash of light and Ingvalt shrank to reveal a young child with green hair in black and white clothing. "What was that attack?"

A moment later, the child was on the ground and out cold.

(---)

"Are you okay?"

"I can't move, I feel like I'm going to throw up if I do anything more than breathe and I'm butt naked. Of course I'm not okay." Nove couldn't be too upset at Jet Edge, it was just trying to help after all. "Make a call to Subaru, Ginga or Teana for me." She knew her mother was going to find out, but she really didn't want her mom to come and pick her up. And who knew what the younger two kids would say to her when they found out.

Though, she suspected that her dad would be amused more than anything else when he found out.

A few seconds later, a screen popped up in front of Nove's face. "Subaru... I..."

"NOVE!" Subaru's eyes widened as she looked at her younger sister. "What happened to you?!"

"Got into a fight, got beat up, ended up naked... And I can't move right now." The redhead gave Subaru a flat stare. "Can you come pick me up? And bring a blanket. I kind of don't want people to see me like this."

"I'll be there soon!" Nove sighed as the screen turned off and closed her eyes. She just hoped that no one came by and got a free show. She doubted she could live it down.

Five minutes later, Nove opened her eyes as she heard Subaru's voice. "Hey." She groaned as Subaru put a blanket over her. "Damn, what the hell kind of punch was I hit with?"

"I'm not sure." Subaru helped Nove up while keeping the blanket over her. "Where'd your assailant go?" She looked around, not seeing anyone.

"Up for carrying two people?" Nove asked, smirking at Subaru, who just nodded slowly.

(---)

Nove, in a loose fitting shirt and shorts, smirked as the child in front of her started to stir awake. "Well, good evening, Emperor Ingvalt..." When the child's eyes widened, she laughed before wincing and groaning. "Urgh, okay, whatever you hit me with, hurts... Einhart Stratos."

Blue and purple eyes stared at the redhead in shock. "How did..?" Einhart started to ask, but was cut off as Nove flicked a small plastic card at her.

"If you're going to do anymore brawling in the streets, I really suggest you don't carry your school I.D. with you." Nove rolled onto her back and groaned. "I have two questions for you. One, why are you trying to prove your strength like that?"

Einhart looked away and bit her lower lip. "Weakness is a sin, if you're weak, you can't protect anyone." Her eyes widened as Nove laughed at her. "What? It's true!"

Nove closed her eyes and took a deep breath as the pain finally started to subside from her body. "Remember that blue gas I shot at you?"

"How could I forget?" Einhart asked as the memory of that attack came back.

"Yeah, well, you should know that the gas was loaded with micro-tracers that cling to your clothes, skin and hair." Nove couldn't help but grin as Einhart stared at her in shock. "And the gas is pretty similar to sleeping gas, but it takes a few minutes to kick in."

Einhart twitched and glared at Nove as she spun on the bed to look at her more fully. "That was a dirty trick."

"If it wasn't a street fight like it was, I wouldn't have used it." Nove sighed at her. "Listen, Einhart, you need to stop with what you were doing before you get hurt." Einhart mumbled something that Nove didn't quite catch, causing the cyborg to sigh. "What was that?"

"I said that I wouldn't get taken by surprise again. After all, people don't really know it's me when I fight them."

"Oh yeah!" Nove shifted on the bed so that she was laying on her side. "Tell me something, just why do you use transformation magic to turn into an adult guy?"

Einhart blinked at the question like it was the dumbest thing she had ever heard. "While I can become an adult female, I figured that it would not be hard for people to know who I was if I went from a child to what I would look like as an adult, so I decided to fight all of my street fights as an adult male so no one could figure out who I was."

"Well, you probably should make your adult form have shorter hair if that's the case then," a new voice spoke up and Einhart gasped as she spun around, seeing an older teenager with short purple hair standing at the doorway. "Nove couldn't even tell if you were a boy or a girl until she..."

"Subaru!" Nove growled as she and Einhart both turned red from the memory. "Not exactly something I want to think about... But, how did you get it to be so accurate?"

Einhart looked at Nove and shrugged. "The library has lots of books, and there's the internet." She wondered why both Nove and Subaru just groaned at the answer.

(---)

"So," the older woman said as she looked at Einhart, "you're the one who beat my daughter up?" For someone who actually managed to hurt Nove so badly, the girl was rather fidgety. When she nodded, the woman sighed softly. "Well, I guess I need to increase her training. I mean, really!" She walked off towards Nove's room. "Losing in a street fight! I thought I taught you better!"

"Don't worry about mom, she can get like that when martial arts comes up." Another girl, this one was almost a carbon copy of the woman who ran off, minus a few stress lines and other indicators of age. "My name's Ginga Nakajima, you beat up Nove, Subaru brought you home, and you just met my mother, Quint Nakajima." She was glad that Aston and Cecilia were asleep right now. "Dad's not around, but..." She trailed off as she heard the door to the outside close. "Hey, Teana," she waved without looking over her shoulder.

"Ginga." Teana nodded as she walked into the kitchen. "Urgh, what a day..." She raised an eyebrow as she saw Einhart looking at her. "Subaru, did you bring home another orphan?"

"Oh, come on, Tea!" Subaru stuck her tongue out at the redhead. "I didn't do anything of the sort."

Teana sighed and nodded before smiling at Einhart. "My name is Teana Lanster, and you are?"

"Einhart Stratos." The girl replied, grabbing her dress and bending at the knees slightly. Seeing that, Subaru, Ginga and Teana all had one thought running through their heads at that moment.

'Too cute.'

Ginga shook her head and looked at Einhart and then at Subaru. "So, Subaru, what are you going to do with her? She was picking fights in public, we're just lucky no one's been too badly hurt."

"OWWW! MOM!" Nove's voice was heard coming from her room.

"Like I said, too badly hurt," Ginga ignored the yell. "Still, it's been bad enough that the police are asking questions about who's been causing fights."

"I'll see what I can do, but I don't think she'll get into too much trouble," Teana smirked at Einhart, who was looking back and forth silently, "after all, who wants to admit that they got beaten up by a little kid?" Teana sweat-dropped before clearing her throat, "at least a little kid that hasn't saved a few worlds before she was fourteen."

Both Ginga and Subaru nodded at that. "Better." After all, Ginga still had an urge to beat Nanoha up at times, she knew that she'd never be able to defeat the redhead in combat. And Subaru?

Well, she still idolized Yuuno and he had been there with Nanoha in every major case after all.

Teana idly wondered what would happen if Nanoha or Yuuno knew what Ginga and Subaru thought about them. She then shrugged it off and just figured they would either ignore it or find it amusing.

"So, may I leave?" Einhart blinked when she saw Ginga smirk at her. "I guess not?"

"Well, you did beat up my little sister," Ginga's grin was almost predatory, "so, I think if you have to stay here overnight and wait for Nove to get better..."

And for this weekend, we have... by special request from a couple of people who wanted to see me finish it...

The Perils of Lost Logia II: The 2nd Cumming
Chapter 5: Thrilling Climax

And I can't post or link to it here, so I'll just say it is in the usual place on mediaminer. If you can't find it, you can PM me or someone you think who knows for a link. Reminder that it's NSFW, and NSFHIG (Not Safe For Humanity In General).

But now, I am free! This horrible, badly punned and written fic is now done! And much like Yuuno, I think I've lost all desire for sex. Hrmmm....

For those curious, I plan to finish up the last chapter of Whipped soon.
I haven't abandoned The Fate Files, either. The first case will have 3 chapters, and I want to at least get those out, while writing G-Squad and Mirror. Can't say which will come next week, though...

I somehow survived your story and made it back. A real epic. Genius. You win the Nobel Prize of Sex Fan Fiction. Yes, I'm just saying that to make you cringe like the many million times I had to as I crawled through that horror.

Well, not exactly a horror. But what. The. Hell. So incredibly hilarious. That last chapter was, well, actually all the chapters are, well.

And, you might not want to hear this (but you certainly will read it), but you have talent at sex comedy. Tremendous amounts of talents. What the hell.

Sextuplets.

...

...

...

... Hah! Where was I... oh right. Are you interested in writing eroges, friend? =3

Dang it Avalon, you c(XD LOL)-block Shirou and Reinforce, but don't protect his mind in other ways? What is wrong, you woman?
Friendship, be made! Magical power, gather! Starlight Breaker.... this world!

And for this weekend, we have... by special request from a couple of people who wanted to see me finish it...

The Perils of Lost Logia II: The 2nd Cumming
Chapter 5: Thrilling Climax

And I can't post or link to it here, so I'll just say it is in the usual place on mediaminer. If you can't find it, you can PM me or someone you think who knows for a link. Reminder that it's NSFW, and NSFHIG (Not Safe For Humanity In General).

But now, I am free! This horrible, badly punned and written fic is now done! And much like Yuuno, I think I've lost all desire for sex. Hrmmm....

For those curious, I plan to finish up the last chapter of Whipped soon.
I haven't abandoned The Fate Files, either. The first case will have 3 chapters, and I want to at least get those out, while writing G-Squad and Mirror. Can't say which will come next week, though...

I nearly lost it

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Dang it Avalon, you c(XD LOL)-block Shirou and Reinforce, but don't protect his mind in other ways? What is wrong, you woman?
Friendship, be made! Magical power, gather! Starlight Breaker.... this world!

"I know, I know." Yuuno replied "I was there, remember? But something seems ... off. Last time I was here, I caught glimpse of a door. But when I went to check it, there's nothing there."

"Suit yourself." The blunette shrugged, glancing around.

Somehow, the blond had dragged him into this ruin, rumored to be the Infinity Library from Ancient Belkan time. The archeologist had visited once, during an excavation organised by Scaglietti Corporation, one of the leading company in Mid-Childa.

Chrono's musing was cut short, however, when his eyes caught something moving.

Whatever the blond was about to say was cut off when Chrono tackled him.

"Chrono, what-!" A hail of energy bullets answered his unfinished question. Before they can recover, bright light lit up, and the two friends were forced to cover their eyes.

"Well well well..." An amused female voice drawled out "What do we have here? Two rats ferreting around our territory. And do try something. My boys here would love the practice."

Knowing that they were outnumbered, the two could do naught but stay still. Though Yuuno noticed the voice sounds familiar.

"Hey boss, what's that?" One of the men asked.

"What's what?" The woman asked, annoyance clear.

"Behind them boss."

The two friends risks a glance behind. Sure enough, the section of the wall that Yuuno was working on was now covered in runes. Two lines of text appeared.

"Lasst alle Hoffnung ihr hier eintretet Für die Finsternis behauptet, alle in ihr Weg?" Yuuno muttered to himself "Abandon all hope ye who enter here
For the Darkness claims all in it path"

As if the phrase were an activation key, the runes glowed brighter. At the same time, the wall begin to shift, revealing a hidden passage.

"Chrono, come on!" Yuuno urged the other. Wasting no time, the black clad man entered, with Yuuno closing the path.

"Where are we?"

" I don't know..." Yuuno looked around, noticing a pathway that it more bright then the other. "This way."

At the end of the corridor, they found a large chamber. To the left lay a suit case with a strange buckle like device inside it, 7 USB sticks layring hazaphardly around. To the right, an alphabet, with only 7 letters glowing.

What caught the most attention however, was the large tube in the middle of the room. The surface was covered in dust, most likely from ages.

"Amazing..." Yuuno breathed, one hand cleaning the glass "To think that this still works after all those years..."

Noticing a plate lying near his feet, Chrono picked it up. "Reinforce?"

Spoiler for General Idea:

A Kamen Rider Double and Nanoha crossover of sort.
Yuuno plays the role of Philip, the walking library while Chrono is the more physical one. However, they both can fight, and both are quite smart. Reinforce, OTOH, play the role Mission Control, calling whenever a Monster shows up.

Their main opponent is the Scaglietti Corps (Not that they know it), with Jail being the mad scientist wanting to save his lover Precia Testarossa. The female in this chapter is Due, head of the security detail and wielding the Illusion memory.

Allies include: KR Ghost (KR Skull in grey and white) - Verossa, his crews: Carim and Scach. Still haven't found the equivalent for Accel, and a role for the every one else.

Walking into the bathroom, Subaru, covered in nothing but a towel, closed the door behind her before blinking and grinning as she saw who was washing herself off. "Tea!"

"Not so loud, it's early." Teana muttered as she scrubbed her hair. She heard a rustle of cloth before feeling a body press up against her wet and soapy back. "...Subaru, I swear..." She twitched as Subaru giggled and pressed her breasts into Teana's back.

"Hmm?" Subaru grinned and reached around to grab Teana's breasts. "Aha! I was right! Tea's boobs have grown!"

Teana felt her eye twitching. "Subaru, you have two seconds to let go of my breasts and..." She trailed off as she felt Subaru's fingers move forward and rub two rather hard points. "That's it!"

"Ack!" Subaru yelped as Teana suddenly stood up and caused her to fall on her back, her legs spread apart. Before she could recover, Teana had spun around and was pinning Subaru to the ground. "Tea?" Subaru found her face going slightly red since Teana had her pinned to the floor, her arms holding down Subaru's, the redhead's breasts were pressing against Subaru's chest. The whole sight was a major turn-on in Subaru's opinion.

Panting softly, Teana narrowed her eyes and leaned in. "Really, Subaru," she said with her face inches from Subaru's, "how many times have I told you now? Stop groping my breasts so much!"

"Yes!" Teana growled at her. "What would it take to get you to stop groping me all the time?!" She wasn't sure what Subaru's answer was going to be, but she really wanted to know.

"Well..." Subaru trailed off and smiled at her. "Remember, you asked me."

"Well, whammph!?" Teana's eyes widened as Subaru leaned up and kissed her on the lips. Before she could even think about pulling away, she found Subaru's legs wrap around her legs and Subaru's arms suddenly slipped up and wrapped around Teana's back, pulling her down.

Subaru had her eyes closed as she pushed her tongue forward against Teana's lips, when Teana opened her mouth, Subaru mentally cheered and was grateful Teana wasn't pushing her away.

"Oh, dammit!" A voice suddenly broke through the air, turning, both Subaru and Teana went red as they saw Nove and Ginga, both wrapped in nothing but towels that only covered their breasts and barely covered their hips, standing in front of the open door, Nove was frowning and blushing while Ginga looked at them in amusement. "Really, can't you two do that in your own room? Do you have to make a mess in the bathroom?! Some of us need it you know!"

"Now, now..." Ginga smirked at Teana and Subaru as they broke apart, "I'm sure that if they made a mess, they'd be willing to clean it up... Though they should be thankful it was us and not Aston or Cecilia. And imagine what Einhart would do if she saw you two making out like that."

Teana twitched and glared at Subaru. "Now look what you did!"

Subaru just giggled as she looked at her sisters. "Um, so..."

"If you two are going to make out, go back to your room and do it, I want to take a bath." Nove made her way in and stripped the towel off. "Well?"

"I'll be good." Subaru muttered as Nove, Ginga and Teana all stared at her.

"Good, Ginga, can you..?"

"Sure." Ginga nodded, closed the door behind her, dropped her towel and got behind Nove to help her wash her back.

(---)

Quint raised an eyebrow as she walked outside to get some early morning air. Out there, in the yard, was Einhart, doing some practicing of her own. While Einhart did have some moves similar to Strike Arts, the elder Nakajima could easily see the differences between the two that a casual eye would miss.

The way Einhart's feet were more solidly planted than a Strike Arts users feet would be, the heavier emphasis on striking with fists over kicking with feet was enough that Quint couldn't help but be mildly impressed with Einhart's prowess in her style. "Not too bad," she smirked when Einhart let out a shriek and spun, panting hard, "I have to admit, Einhart, I've never seen someone so young so far along with their style."

For some reason, Einhart looked upset at that. "Is something wrong?"

"My skill is not exactly natural." Einhart turned around and went back to practicing her moves. "My ancestor's memories, the Hegemon Emperor that existed at the same time as the Saint Kaiser Olivie Segbert... I inherited his memories and his fighting abilities." Closing her eyes, Einhart held her right hand above her head, fingers pointed to the sky while her left hand was balled into a fist by her side. "These Kaiser Arts that I inherited allow me to fight well..."

"But they're his memories, huh?" Quint asked, getting a nod from Einhart. "I don't really understand how you can have his memories, but I wasn't kidding when I said that you were skilled. Even if you have his memories, you had to train your body to be able to use that style."

"I thank you." Einhart nodded and looked at Quint. "You have some training yourself, and you are Nove's mother?"

Quint gave Einhart a small smile. "Oh, I'm just an old lady well past her prime that just works for the Bureau part-time these days and raises her family when she can." Rolling her shoulders while stretching her neck from side to side, Quint walked out onto the grass. "However, I would not mind a demonstration of these Kaiser Arts of yours."

Einhart closed her eyes and Quint raised an eyebrow as her body changed, becoming taller and actually curvier. "Huh..." Quint blinked as she looked at Einhart's new form. "I thought you turned into a man?"

"As I told Nove," Einhart began as she took a stance, both hands held in front of her mid-section, "I can take a female adult form."

Quint nodded as she looked at Einhart's dress, which was mostly white, save for the sleeves and the skirt around her legs, which was incredibly short, just barely covering her hips, and stockings that went up most of her legs, save for her upper thighs, on her hands were two finger-less gloves and Quint noted that Einhart's older form did not seem to be too well-endowed in the chest department.

The next thing Quint knew, Einhart was in close and driving a punch into her unguarded ribs. "Got you." Quint smirked as Einhart's eyes widened. Grabbing the younger girl's head, she pushed down while driving a knee up, stunning Einhart for a brief second. Quint followed the knee blow with three strong punches to the stomach followed by a snap kick into Einhart's jaw, sending the younger girl tumbling through the air a few times before landing on her feet and sliding back a short distance.

Looking up, Einhart stared at Quint, who was lowering her leg. "You are better than Nove is."

Quint smiled at her. "While I thank you for the compliment, it's mostly experience." She narrowed her eyes as Einhart suddenly charged at her, energy spinning around her left fist. Leaning back and holding her hands in front of her, Quint wondered just what Einhart was planning on doing by rushing in like she was. An attack like that wasn't going to be too useful as... Quint's eyes widened as Einhart punched forward, sending a small burst of energy forward. Smirking, Quint jumped over it and gathered energy into her feet. Kicking forward twice, the energy that had been gathering there was launched at Einhart, who simply held her hands in front of her, palms outwards and caught the energy in her hands. "...Well, that's just..."

Quint didn't get to finish that statement as Einhart threw the energy back at her so fast that the older woman couldn't dodge in time and could only cross her arms to brace herself for the energy that slammed into her and sent her flying into the outer wall of the house. "Hmm, I see how Nove had such trouble with you." Quint grinned darkly at Einhart, who had a sinking sensation covering her. "One thing you need to know, dear, it's not raw talent, raw power, toughness, strength or skill that determines an outcome, sometimes it's just plain luck or experience."

"You keep saying that," Einhart said as she rushed at Quint, who had extracted herself from the wall and was taking up a stance as she waited for Einhart, "but I have yet to see it."

"Very well then." As Einhart punched at Quint, her eyes widened as she found Quint grabbing her arm and giving it a tug, redirecting her punch and knocking her off balance as Quint drove a knee into Einhart's stomach with enough force that the younger girl's eyes widened and she coughed hard. "Had enough?"

"What?" Einhart grimaced as she backed up slowly and took a guarded stance. "How?"

"The man who trained me to deal with dangerous missions is one of the strongest Knights in the Bureau, one trick I've learned is how to drastically increase my strength in short bursts." Granted, Nove, Subaru and Ginga wouldn't need the technique as much as she did, with them being cyborgs after all. Still, there was no need to tell Einhart that. "I think that's enough for right now."

Einhart blinked as Quint turned towards the house. "But..."

"I need to get breakfast ready." Quint smirked as Einhart just stood in the yard, sputtering. "When you're done, you can join us." As she got inside, she was greeted by her husband, who raised an eyebrow at her. "Yes?"

"Did you purposely pick a fight with a young girl, get her worked up and then called the whole thing off when you know that I could make breakfast for everyone?"

"Partially," Quint nodded to him, "but I was curious about her style, and I got my answer."

"That was still cruel, dear." Genya shook his head. "But, I'm glad you did stop, I doubt that the yard or the house could take the abuse if you two continued to fight."

Quint nodded and got to work getting food ready for breakfast. Even if it was a short fight, she couldn't help but notice that Einhart's attacks were similar to Nove's attacks...

Walking into the bathroom, Subaru, covered in nothing but a towel, closed the door behind her before blinking and grinning as she saw who was washing herself off. "Tea!"

"Not so loud, it's early." Teana muttered as she scrubbed her hair. She heard a rustle of cloth before feeling a body press up against her wet and soapy back. "...Subaru, I swear..." She twitched as Subaru giggled and pressed her breasts into Teana's back.

"Hmm?" Subaru grinned and reached around to grab Teana's breasts. "Aha! I was right! Tea's boobs have grown!"

Teana felt her eye twitching. "Subaru, you have two seconds to let go of my breasts and..." She trailed off as she felt Subaru's fingers move forward and rub two rather hard points. "That's it!"

"Ack!" Subaru yelped as Teana suddenly stood up and caused her to fall on her back, her legs spread apart. Before she could recover, Teana had spun around and was pinning Subaru to the ground. "Tea?" Subaru found her face going slightly red since Teana had her pinned to the floor, her arms holding down Subaru's, the redhead's breasts were pressing against Subaru's chest. The whole sight was a major turn-on in Subaru's opinion.

Panting softly, Teana narrowed her eyes and leaned in. "Really, Subaru," she said with her face inches from Subaru's, "how many times have I told you now? Stop groping my breasts so much!"

"Yes!" Teana growled at her. "What would it take to get you to stop groping me all the time?!" She wasn't sure what Subaru's answer was going to be, but she really wanted to know.

"Well..." Subaru trailed off and smiled at her. "Remember, you asked me."

"Well, whammph!?" Teana's eyes widened as Subaru leaned up and kissed her on the lips. Before she could even think about pulling away, she found Subaru's legs wrap around her legs and Subaru's arms suddenly slipped up and wrapped around Teana's back, pulling her down.

Subaru had her eyes closed as she pushed her tongue forward against Teana's lips, when Teana opened her mouth, Subaru mentally cheered and was grateful Teana wasn't pushing her away.

"Oh, dammit!" A voice suddenly broke through the air, turning, both Subaru and Teana went red as they saw Nove and Ginga, both wrapped in nothing but towels that only covered their breasts and barely covered their hips, standing in front of the open door, Nove was frowning and blushing while Ginga looked at them in amusement. "Really, can't you two do that in your own room? Do you have to make a mess in the bathroom?! Some of us need it you know!"

"Now, now..." Ginga smirked at Teana and Subaru as they broke apart, "I'm sure that if they made a mess, they'd be willing to clean it up... Though they should be thankful it was us and not Aston or Cecilia. And imagine what Einhart would do if she saw you two making out like that."

Teana twitched and glared at Subaru. "Now look what you did!"

Subaru just giggled as she looked at her sisters. "Um, so..."

"If you two are going to make out, go back to your room and do it, I want to take a bath." Nove made her way in and stripped the towel off. "Well?"

"I'll be good." Subaru muttered as Nove, Ginga and Teana all stared at her.

"Good, Ginga, can you..?"

"Sure." Ginga nodded, closed the door behind her, dropped her towel and got behind Nove to help her wash her back.

(---)

Quint raised an eyebrow as she walked outside to get some early morning air. Out there, in the yard, was Einhart, doing some practicing of her own. While Einhart did have some moves similar to Strike Arts, the elder Nakajima could easily see the differences between the two that a casual eye would miss.

The way Einhart's feet were more solidly planted than a Strike Arts users feet would be, the heavier emphasis on striking with fists over kicking with feet was enough that Quint couldn't help but be mildly impressed with Einhart's prowess in her style. "Not too bad," she smirked when Einhart let out a shriek and spun, panting hard, "I have to admit, Einhart, I've never seen someone so young so far along with their style."

For some reason, Einhart looked upset at that. "Is something wrong?"

"My skill is not exactly natural." Einhart turned around and went back to practicing her moves. "My ancestor's memories, the Hegemon Emperor that existed at the same time as the Saint Kaiser Olivie Segbert... I inherited his memories and his fighting abilities." Closing her eyes, Einhart held her right hand above her head, fingers pointed to the sky while her left hand was balled into a fist by her side. "These Kaiser Arts that I inherited allow me to fight well..."

"But they're his memories, huh?" Quint asked, getting a nod from Einhart. "I don't really understand how you can have his memories, but I wasn't kidding when I said that you were skilled. Even if you have his memories, you had to train your body to be able to use that style."

"I thank you." Einhart nodded and looked at Quint. "You have some training yourself, and you are Nove's mother?"

Quint gave Einhart a small smile. "Oh, I'm just an old lady well past her prime that just works for the Bureau part-time these days and raises her family when she can." Rolling her shoulders while stretching her neck from side to side, Quint walked out onto the grass. "However, I would not mind a demonstration of these Kaiser Arts of yours."

Einhart closed her eyes and Quint raised an eyebrow as her body changed, becoming taller and actually curvier. "Huh..." Quint blinked as she looked at Einhart's new form. "I thought you turned into a man?"

"As I told Nove," Einhart began as she took a stance, both hands held in front of her mid-section, "I can take a female adult form."

Quint nodded as she looked at Einhart's dress, which was mostly white, save for the sleeves and the skirt around her legs, which was incredibly short, just barely covering her hips, and stockings that went up most of her legs, save for her upper thighs, on her hands were two finger-less gloves and Quint noted that Einhart's older form did not seem to be too well-endowed in the chest department.

The next thing Quint knew, Einhart was in close and driving a punch into her unguarded ribs. "Got you." Quint smirked as Einhart's eyes widened. Grabbing the younger girl's head, she pushed down while driving a knee up, stunning Einhart for a brief second. Quint followed the knee blow with three strong punches to the stomach followed by a snap kick into Einhart's jaw, sending the younger girl tumbling through the air a few times before landing on her feet and sliding back a short distance.

Looking up, Einhart stared at Quint, who was lowering her leg. "You are better than Nove is."

Quint smiled at her. "While I thank you for the compliment, it's mostly experience." She narrowed her eyes as Einhart suddenly charged at her, energy spinning around her left fist. Leaning back and holding her hands in front of her, Quint wondered just what Einhart was planning on doing by rushing in like she was. An attack like that wasn't going to be too useful as... Quint's eyes widened as Einhart punched forward, sending a small burst of energy forward. Smirking, Quint jumped over it and gathered energy into her feet. Kicking forward twice, the energy that had been gathering there was launched at Einhart, who simply held her hands in front of her, palms outwards and caught the energy in her hands. "...Well, that's just..."

Quint didn't get to finish that statement as Einhart threw the energy back at her so fast that the older woman couldn't dodge in time and could only cross her arms to brace herself for the energy that slammed into her and sent her flying into the outer wall of the house. "Hmm, I see how Nove had such trouble with you." Quint grinned darkly at Einhart, who had a sinking sensation covering her. "One thing you need to know, dear, it's not raw talent, raw power, toughness, strength or skill that determines an outcome, sometimes it's just plain luck or experience."

"You keep saying that," Einhart said as she rushed at Quint, who had extracted herself from the wall and was taking up a stance as she waited for Einhart, "but I have yet to see it."

"Very well then." As Einhart punched at Quint, her eyes widened as she found Quint grabbing her arm and giving it a tug, redirecting her punch and knocking her off balance as Quint drove a knee into Einhart's stomach with enough force that the younger girl's eyes widened and she coughed hard. "Had enough?"

"What?" Einhart grimaced as she backed up slowly and took a guarded stance. "How?"

"The man who trained me to deal with dangerous missions is one of the strongest Knights in the Bureau, one trick I've learned is how to drastically increase my strength in short bursts." Granted, Nove, Subaru and Ginga wouldn't need the technique as much as she did, with them being cyborgs after all. Still, there was no need to tell Einhart that. "I think that's enough for right now."

Einhart blinked as Quint turned towards the house. "But..."

"I need to get breakfast ready." Quint smirked as Einhart just stood in the yard, sputtering. "When you're done, you can join us." As she got inside, she was greeted by her husband, who raised an eyebrow at her. "Yes?"

"Did you purposely pick a fight with a young girl, get her worked up and then called the whole thing off when you know that I could make breakfast for everyone?"

"Partially," Quint nodded to him, "but I was curious about her style, and I got my answer."

"That was still cruel, dear." Genya shook his head. "But, I'm glad you did stop, I doubt that the yard or the house could take the abuse if you two continued to fight."

Quint nodded and got to work getting food ready for breakfast. Even if it was a short fight, she couldn't help but notice that Einhart's attacks were similar to Nove's attacks...

Both had something lacking in them.

Quint wondered if either of them knew that or not.

*A slightly scorched and currently impaled with his own sword, Odin came in while Reia's behind him, trying to heal him.*

Me: What happened to the Tuna, Odin?

Odin: Got soften, then sliced to ribbons before it was incinerated by Signum... *pulls out the sword sticking on his chest where is heart is.* and got impaled by my own sword by Vita and before eating a Rune Flare from Rein Eins. That answers your question, NEET?

Me: Works for me.

Reia: Um... I know Subaru worships Yuuno... But looks like the rainbows are still straighter than Subaru... Did Sein influenced her during her stay with the numbers in the StrikerS arc?

Me: I really don't know about that. But anyways looks like Einhart got schooled by Quint.

Reia: Einhart's strong but inexperienced, so against someone who's alot more experienced than her, It will take a devil's luck to win in that match.

Odin: Old Lady my ass. Quint's still looks like in her early 30's, bar the stress marks.

Me: I'm not liable for anyone who wants to deck him... *points at Odin.* for his comments...

("Did you purposely pick a fight with a young girl, get her worked up and then called the whole thing off when you know that I could make breakfast for everyone?") Well, this is Quint who we are talking about. It's standard MO for her.

Dang it Avalon, you c(XD LOL)-block Shirou and Reinforce, but don't protect his mind in other ways? What is wrong, you woman?
Friendship, be made! Magical power, gather! Starlight Breaker.... this world!

Yawning as she made her way downstairs, Fate was wondering who was up making breakfast this early. After last night, she didn't think anyone in the house would be able to get up any sooner than she did.

Walking into the kitchen, she blinked at what she saw. The table was set and food was being put on it by the last two people she expected to see that morning. "Erio. Caro. When did you two come back?"

The redhead turned away from cooking over the stove and smiled at Fate. "Well, there's some new people to help watch over the preserve, so we were given a few days off. And we thought we'd surprise all of you by showing up."

"I am surprised." Fate smiled at him. "What time did you two get in?"

Erio blushed at the question. "Um, about three hours ago..." Seeing Fate's look of disbelief, he just rubbed his head and looked back to what he was cooking.

Caro rolled her eyes. "We forgot about the time difference and ended up here a bit too early." She pouted as she realized that she wasn't tall enough, even standing on a chair, to get to the glasses on the highest shelf. "Waaagh! This isn't fair! You people are giants." She turned and gave Fate an accusatory look.

"If Lu was here, she'd just say you're short." Erio pointed out, before yelping as something hard slammed into his rear. "Darn it, Fried, I was just teasing, you didn't need to headbutt me again!" He growled at the Dragon, who was currently in its tiny form.

The Dragon just stuck his tongue out at Erio in response.

"What's going on out here?" A male voice spoke up and Caro's eyes lit up as she saw who was walking into the kitchen at that moment.

"Yuuno-papa!"

"Ack!" Yuuno had to take a step back as a pink little typhoon grabbed him. "Caro! How are you?"

Yuuno laughed as he hugged her back. "Well, I'm really surprised. Wow, have you gotten taller?" Caro started blushing as Yuuno looked her over. "You're getting really beautiful. I bet you need to beat all the boys away from you."

"Nah uh!" Caro turned away, her cheeks as pink as her hair. "Don't be silly, papa."

"Oh, I bet you have all the boys wanting to give you stuff, you're so cute that they just want to hug you and never let you go, right?" Yuuno winked as Caro's face turned bright red and she shook her head. "No? Well, then they're stupid. You're a very lovely young woman."

Caro smiled and hugged him back, sighing softly as she enjoyed her papa hugging her.

Watching the two of them, Fate just smiled and looked at Erio, who was blushing as he cooked the food. Walking over to him, she hugged him from behind and gave him a soft kiss on the cheek. "I'm glad you're back too, Erio." Seeing his blush get brighter, she giggled and let him go. "I'll go wake the others up."

Yuuno nodded and moved to help Caro set the table for breakfast.

(---)

Chrono took a deep breath as he stepped foot onto the planet that held a lot of meaning to him. Sure, he wasn't born on Earth, but he did spend a lot of time on this planet while growing up. "It's been a long time."

"Yeah," he looked behind him where Filia was helping Hayate out. His wife was smiling at him. "Though, this part of the world is more open than that annoying city at least."

Chrono chuckled softly and looked at Hayate. "Are you sure that you're okay for this?"

"I want to see him," she narrowed her eyes at the Admiral, "and don't think that because I'm about a month away from giving birth that I can't blast you into orbit from where you stand."

Chrono sweat-dropped and nodded as he looked at Filia, who was nodding at Hayate. "...You're supposed to be on my side!"

"She's also a pregnant woman, and, as someone who's had a daughter, I can safely say that I understand what she's going through." Filia patted Hayate's back gently. "Come on, dear, let's go inside before my mean old husband tries to make light of your situation."

Chrono just stared, mouth agape as he watched them walk towards the farm house in the distance. "...Since when is this my fault? I didn't get Hayate pregnant!"

Filia smiled as she walked with Hayate. Teasing her husband was rather fun, she just hoped that things at home were alright.

"Do you not have school today?" She nodded when he complained how boring school was and he just wanted to play with her. "If you go to school today and not cause problems, I shall play with you afterwords."

Val's eyes sparkled. "Really? All over the park?" When Sette nodded, he squealed and hugged her tightly. "You're the best, big sis!"

Sette smiled as she hugged her brother back. "Come on, we should get to the table before Wendi decides to eat our share of food." Val's eyes widened as he jumped off of her and ran towards the kitchen.

Before Sette could get up, Mr. Snuggles jumped on her head and looked down into her eyes. "Told you that they were annoying. Can I please scratch them now?"

"I would rather you not try to harm my brothers and sisters, Mr. Snuggles. But thank you for the offer." Standing up, Sette wondered just how Mr. Snuggles was able to keep looking her in the face without falling off or even shifting his weight at all.

"Hey! Wendi's not even out here! Big sis, you liar!" Val's voiced tore through the house, getting a chuckle from Mr. Snuggles and a small smirk from Sette.

"Hmm, she's not?" Sette asked as she walked out into the kitchen. "I guess not."

Val whined as he sat at the table, putting his face into his hands.

Watching that, Amy just smiled at them. "Sette, would you be a dear and make sure that Wendi, Otto and Deed are up?"

Nodding, Sette left the kitchen to do that. "Mr. Snuggles, would you stop looking at me in the face like that?"

"I was going to see if you were going to force me to get off or not." Mr. Snuggles moved from her head to her right shoulder. "I was wondering if you've noticed anything about Otto or Wendi's tails lately."

Sette blinked at the question. "I have not been paying attention, I admit. Why do you ask?"

"Wendi's tail seems darker than I remember, and Otto's tail is brighter in color as well." Mr. Snuggles tilted his head in confusion. "By the way, Sette, I never bothered to ask before, but why is it that Wendi's tail is different from her hair?"

"What do you mean?" Sette asked as she went towards Otto's room.

"I am not sure. Her hair seems to be darker than your hair, even though it's the same. But Otto's hair is..."

Sette blinked and her eyes widened. "Wait, you can see colors?"

Mr. Snuggles raised his head up and blinked in amazement. "That's what they're called? I was wondering why the world seemed so bright compared to what it was before the doctor worked on my body."

Sette nodded slowly as she thought about it. "Hmm, well, I guess mom should know about this. You might want to be able to name what color you're looking at then."

"Thank you."

As Sette walked towards Otto's room, she stiffened as she felt something wrap around her waist before two hands grabbed her breasts. "Wendi, what are you doing?"

"Hmm, they've gotten heavier lately. What have you been eating?" Wendi asked as she gave Sette's breasts another squeeze.

"If you are done seeing if my breasts are watermelons or not..." Sette trailed off as a boomerang formed in her left hand out of nowhere. Seeing that, Wendi grinned and slipped away from Sette. "As for your question, just yesterday evening, I had two steaks, four kilos of mashed potatoes, four liters of milk and two liters of water, as well as two apple pies."

"What?" Wendi stared at Sette. "I know I can eat a lot, but that's more than I normally eat."

"She was still hungry and went looking for food an hour later." Mr. Snuggles grinned as he watched Wendi face-fault to the floor. "You do eat a lot, Sette.

"Does it all go to your breasts or something?" Wendi asked as she stood up, before looking at Sette's backside and tilting her head. "Well, your butt hasn't gotten any bigger, so... Where does it go?"

Sette just shrugged at her. "If you, Otto and Deed would practice using your Dragon magic more, perhaps you would start eating more as well."

Wendi sweat-dropped at that. "Uh, no offense, but I don't think I want to end up like you and have to eat all the time."

Sette shrugged at her. "Very well, but I was just making an observation." She wondered why Wendi looked uncomfortable at the idea of eating even more, but then shrugged it off.

It wasn't important. She was actually enjoying using her magic and learning new stuff.

(---)

"Chrono, Hayate," Gil smiled as he saw his former pupil and the girl that he... He shook his head to banish those thoughts, it was a long time ago and it looked like... His eyes widened as he took in Hayate's form. "Well, well, Hayate, you really have blossomed into a beautiful woman, haven't you?" He looked at Filia and blinked, trying to recall where he saw her from. "I know you, but..."

"My name is Filia Ul Copt-Harlaown." The blonde smiled at the elderly man. "I married Chrono and Amy both several years ago."

Gil snapped his fingers and nodded. "Ah yes. Now I remember. How is the family, dear?"

"Quite well, actually," Filia smiled at him as the four of them sat around in Gil's living room. Looking around briefly, Filia nodded in approval at the living conditions Gil had. "It's a very cozy house."

"Yes," Gil covered his mouth and started coughing hard, "it is a nice house." Sighing, he leaned back into the couch. "It is a shame that I never had any family to share this with."

"Don't be ridiculous." Hayate spoke up, causing Gil to look at her and blink as she smiled at him. "After all, grandfather, it has been a long time since I saw you last."

Taking off his glasses, Gil sighed as he closed his eyes and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Even after what I tried to do to you, you still call me that."

"I never blamed you for what you tried to do." Hayate stood up slowly and made her way over to him and eased herself onto the couch, wincing slightly. Getting up and down from a sitting position was hard when the baby was almost fully developed after all, since it put pressure on her hips that she didn't like too much. Lindy, Quint and Lina had given her plenty of information about the final few months of pregnancy and the annoyances that came with it. "You were in a bad situation, grandfather," she patted him on his arm and smiled, "but, it was a long time ago, please, stop blaming yourself for it." When Gil looked down, depressed, Hayate gently took his hand and placed it on her belly. "Can you feel that, grandfather?" He looked at her belly, a look of wonder on his face as he felt the life that was growing inside of her move around, "that's you're great-grandchild."

He smiled, his eyes watering up as he moved to hug her lightly. "Thank you, Hayate, but..." He let go of the hug, sighing heavily. "I do not think that I shall last much longer."

"That's why I came here, actually," Chrono spoke up, causing Gil to look at him in resignation, "Lotte and Aria both know that they're taking a toll on you. They've been in their cat forms for the past few months, and they want to release you from the strain of having them."

Gil closed his eyes and shook his head. "Those two... I can't just let them go. They're the closest I have to daughters."

"I admit, I'm not too... Up to date on all the particulars with a familiar," Chrono took a deep breath, hoping that he was right on this, "but, if you didn't have to sustain those two, your health wouldn't be deteriorating as fast as it is?" Gil nodded to him. "So, tell me, Gil Graham, is there a ritual to transfer a familiar from you to another master?"

Yawning as she made her way downstairs, Fate was wondering who was up making breakfast this early. After last night, she didn't think anyone in the house would be able to get up any sooner than she did.

Walking into the kitchen, she blinked at what she saw. The table was set and food was being put on it by the last two people she expected to see that morning. "Erio. Caro. When did you two come back?"

The redhead turned away from cooking over the stove and smiled at Fate. "Well, there's some new people to help watch over the preserve, so we were given a few days off. And we thought we'd surprise all of you by showing up."

"I am surprised." Fate smiled at him. "What time did you two get in?"

Erio blushed at the question. "Um, about three hours ago..." Seeing Fate's look of disbelief, he just rubbed his head and looked back to what he was cooking.

Caro rolled her eyes. "We forgot about the time difference and ended up here a bit too early." She pouted as she realized that she wasn't tall enough, even standing on a chair, to get to the glasses on the highest shelf. "Waaagh! This isn't fair! You people are giants." She turned and gave Fate an accusatory look.

"If Lu was here, she'd just say you're short." Erio pointed out, before yelping as something hard slammed into his rear. "Darn it, Fried, I was just teasing, you didn't need to headbutt me again!" He growled at the Dragon, who was currently in its tiny form.

The Dragon just stuck his tongue out at Erio in response.

"What's going on out here?" A male voice spoke up and Caro's eyes lit up as she saw who was walking into the kitchen at that moment.

"Yuuno-papa!"

"Ack!" Yuuno had to take a step back as a pink little typhoon grabbed him. "Caro! How are you?"

Yuuno laughed as he hugged her back. "Well, I'm really surprised. Wow, have you gotten taller?" Caro started blushing as Yuuno looked her over. "You're getting really beautiful. I bet you need to beat all the boys away from you."

"Nah uh!" Caro turned away, her cheeks as pink as her hair. "Don't be silly, papa."

"Oh, I bet you have all the boys wanting to give you stuff, you're so cute that they just want to hug you and never let you go, right?" Yuuno winked as Caro's face turned bright red and she shook her head. "No? Well, then they're stupid. You're a very lovely young woman."

Caro smiled and hugged him back, sighing softly as she enjoyed her papa hugging her.

Watching the two of them, Fate just smiled and looked at Erio, who was blushing as he cooked the food. Walking over to him, she hugged him from behind and gave him a soft kiss on the cheek. "I'm glad you're back too, Erio." Seeing his blush get brighter, she giggled and let him go. "I'll go wake the others up."

Yuuno nodded and moved to help Caro set the table for breakfast.

(---)

Chrono took a deep breath as he stepped foot onto the planet that held a lot of meaning to him. Sure, he wasn't born on Earth, but he did spend a lot of time on this planet while growing up. "It's been a long time."

"Yeah," he looked behind him where Filia was helping Hayate out. His wife was smiling at him. "Though, this part of the world is more open than that annoying city at least."

Chrono chuckled softly and looked at Hayate. "Are you sure that you're okay for this?"

"I want to see him," she narrowed her eyes at the Admiral, "and don't think that because I'm about a month away from giving birth that I can't blast you into orbit from where you stand."

Chrono sweat-dropped and nodded as he looked at Filia, who was nodding at Hayate. "...You're supposed to be on my side!"

"She's also a pregnant woman, and, as someone who's had a daughter, I can safely say that I understand what she's going through." Filia patted Hayate's back gently. "Come on, dear, let's go inside before my mean old husband tries to make light of your situation."

Chrono just stared, mouth agape as he watched them walk towards the farm house in the distance. "...Since when is this my fault? I didn't get Hayate pregnant!"

Filia smiled as she walked with Hayate. Teasing her husband was rather fun, she just hoped that things at home were alright.

"Do you not have school today?" She nodded when he complained how boring school was and he just wanted to play with her. "If you go to school today and not cause problems, I shall play with you afterwords."

Val's eyes sparkled. "Really? All over the park?" When Sette nodded, he squealed and hugged her tightly. "You're the best, big sis!"

Sette smiled as she hugged her brother back. "Come on, we should get to the table before Wendi decides to eat our share of food." Val's eyes widened as he jumped off of her and ran towards the kitchen.

Before Sette could get up, Mr. Snuggles jumped on her head and looked down into her eyes. "Told you that they were annoying. Can I please scratch them now?"

"I would rather you not try to harm my brothers and sisters, Mr. Snuggles. But thank you for the offer." Standing up, Sette wondered just how Mr. Snuggles was able to keep looking her in the face without falling off or even shifting his weight at all.

"Hey! Wendi's not even out here! Big sis, you liar!" Val's voiced tore through the house, getting a chuckle from Mr. Snuggles and a small smirk from Sette.

"Hmm, she's not?" Sette asked as she walked out into the kitchen. "I guess not."

Val whined as he sat at the table, putting his face into his hands.

Watching that, Amy just smiled at them. "Sette, would you be a dear and make sure that Wendi, Otto and Deed are up?"

Nodding, Sette left the kitchen to do that. "Mr. Snuggles, would you stop looking at me in the face like that?"

"I was going to see if you were going to force me to get off or not." Mr. Snuggles moved from her head to her right shoulder. "I was wondering if you've noticed anything about Otto or Wendi's tails lately."

Sette blinked at the question. "I have not been paying attention, I admit. Why do you ask?"

"Wendi's tail seems darker than I remember, and Otto's tail is brighter in color as well." Mr. Snuggles tilted his head in confusion. "By the way, Sette, I never bothered to ask before, but why is it that Wendi's tail is different from her hair?"

"What do you mean?" Sette asked as she went towards Otto's room.

"I am not sure. Her hair seems to be darker than your hair, even though it's the same. But Otto's hair is..."

Sette blinked and her eyes widened. "Wait, you can see colors?"

Mr. Snuggles raised his head up and blinked in amazement. "That's what they're called? I was wondering why the world seemed so bright compared to what it was before the doctor worked on my body."

Sette nodded slowly as she thought about it. "Hmm, well, I guess mom should know about this. You might want to be able to name what color you're looking at then."

"Thank you."

As Sette walked towards Otto's room, she stiffened as she felt something wrap around her waist before two hands grabbed her breasts. "Wendi, what are you doing?"

"Hmm, they've gotten heavier lately. What have you been eating?" Wendi asked as she gave Sette's breasts another squeeze.

"If you are done seeing if my breasts are watermelons or not..." Sette trailed off as a boomerang formed in her left hand out of nowhere. Seeing that, Wendi grinned and slipped away from Sette. "As for your question, just yesterday evening, I had two steaks, four kilos of mashed potatoes, four liters of milk and two liters of water, as well as two apple pies."

"What?" Wendi stared at Sette. "I know I can eat a lot, but that's more than I normally eat."

"She was still hungry and went looking for food an hour later." Mr. Snuggles grinned as he watched Wendi face-fault to the floor. "You do eat a lot, Sette.

"Does it all go to your breasts or something?" Wendi asked as she stood up, before looking at Sette's backside and tilting her head. "Well, your butt hasn't gotten any bigger, so... Where does it go?"

Sette just shrugged at her. "If you, Otto and Deed would practice using your Dragon magic more, perhaps you would start eating more as well."

Wendi sweat-dropped at that. "Uh, no offense, but I don't think I want to end up like you and have to eat all the time."

Sette shrugged at her. "Very well, but I was just making an observation." She wondered why Wendi looked uncomfortable at the idea of eating even more, but then shrugged it off.

It wasn't important. She was actually enjoying using her magic and learning new stuff.

(---)

"Chrono, Hayate," Gil smiled as he saw his former pupil and the girl that he... He shook his head to banish those thoughts, it was a long time ago and it looked like... His eyes widened as he took in Hayate's form. "Well, well, Hayate, you really have blossomed into a beautiful woman, haven't you?" He looked at Filia and blinked, trying to recall where he saw her from. "I know you, but..."

"My name is Filia Ul Copt-Harlaown." The blonde smiled at the elderly man. "I married Chrono and Amy both several years ago."

Gil snapped his fingers and nodded. "Ah yes. Now I remember. How is the family, dear?"

"Quite well, actually," Filia smiled at him as the four of them sat around in Gil's living room. Looking around briefly, Filia nodded in approval at the living conditions Gil had. "It's a very cozy house."

"Yes," Gil covered his mouth and started coughing hard, "it is a nice house." Sighing, he leaned back into the couch. "It is a shame that I never had any family to share this with."

"Don't be ridiculous." Hayate spoke up, causing Gil to look at her and blink as she smiled at him. "After all, grandfather, it has been a long time since I saw you last."

Taking off his glasses, Gil sighed as he closed his eyes and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Even after what I tried to do to you, you still call me that."

"I never blamed you for what you tried to do." Hayate stood up slowly and made her way over to him and eased herself onto the couch, wincing slightly. Getting up and down from a sitting position was hard when the baby was almost fully developed after all, since it put pressure on her hips that she didn't like too much. Lindy, Quint and Lina had given her plenty of information about the final few months of pregnancy and the annoyances that came with it. "You were in a bad situation, grandfather," she patted him on his arm and smiled, "but, it was a long time ago, please, stop blaming yourself for it." When Gil looked down, depressed, Hayate gently took his hand and placed it on her belly. "Can you feel that, grandfather?" He looked at her belly, a look of wonder on his face as he felt the life that was growing inside of her move around, "that's you're great-grandchild."

He smiled, his eyes watering up as he moved to hug her lightly. "Thank you, Hayate, but..." He let go of the hug, sighing heavily. "I do not think that I shall last much longer."

"That's why I came here, actually," Chrono spoke up, causing Gil to look at him in resignation, "Lotte and Aria both know that they're taking a toll on you. They've been in their cat forms for the past few months, and they want to release you from the strain of having them."

Gil closed his eyes and shook his head. "Those two... I can't just let them go. They're the closest I have to daughters."

"I admit, I'm not too... Up to date on all the particulars with a familiar," Chrono took a deep breath, hoping that he was right on this, "but, if you didn't have to sustain those two, your health wouldn't be deteriorating as fast as it is?" Gil nodded to him. "So, tell me, Gil Graham, is there a ritual to transfer a familiar from you to another master?"

Aschen: You're still a shrimp. *Look flatly at Caro.*

Odin: I Agree with Brodel here, You're still as short as a certain Alchemist.

*Somewhere in the multi-verse, a pint-size alchemist got an urge to kick someone's ass.*